“What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough. If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, and if we command complete knowledge of available means, then problem which remains is purely one of logic.... This, however, is emphatically not the economic problem which society faces.”

Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” American Economic Review, 35 (January 1945)

If you're in the Ottawa area and think true gender equality means compassion and services for men and boys as well as women and girls, please attend the Canadian Centre for Men and Families - Ottawa gala luncheon two weeks this Sunday, on September 16 from 1-4. Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccmf-ottawa-gala-lunch-fundraiser-tickets-48985700549 and if you think it's worthwhile please help share it on social media and with friends and family.

Thanks, and I hope to see you there.

In my latest National Post column I predict the policies the federal Tories will endorse in Halifax this weekend.

"The late Jimmy 'Schnozzle’ Durante memorably exposed the flaw in this logic: 'They said that Hitler was mad. They said that Napoleon was mad. They said that Louie was mad.' Interjection: 'Who’s Louie?' Durante: 'My uncle. He was mad.'"

Editorial in National Post December 27, 1999

"Nobody, on their deathbeds, says, 'My biggest regret is eating ice cream.' Life is too short spending it all thinking about how to live longer."

Dr. Steven Bratman, "author of Health Food Junkies/Orthorexia Nervosa: Overcoming the Obsession With Healthful Eating", quoted in Globe & Mail October 16, 2001

In my latest Looniepolitics column I worry that the Auditor General's description of government failures as "incomprehensible" suggests that our political class has far too little grasp of how the state in which they place so much faith actually works... or doesn't.